A group of prominent educators – charging that schools are offering students politically correct psychobabble about Sept. 11 – has countered with its own a no-holds-barred lesson plan.

The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation has published essays by 23 educators and authors that focus on civics, history, patriotism and clearly stating who America’s enemies are.

Former U.S. Secretary of Education Bill Bennett said students need to be taught the difference between right and wrong, and good and evil.

“Hijacking planes full of innocent citizens and crashing those planes into buildings filled with more innocent civilians is – plainly and simply – evil. To call it anything else is to trivialize what happened,” Bennett said.

The teaching proposals come in response to efforts like those by the city Department of Education, which published a guide on 9/11 calling for “hope, healing and heroism” and downplaying the evils of terrorism “to avoid traumatizing students.”

Chester Finn, head of the Fordham Foundation, said educators – cowed by child psychologists – are so spooked about teaching uncomfortable truths about terrorists and the countries that support them that they’re refusing to tell students about the “harsher lessons” needed to safeguard America.

“Everything is either about tolerance or about mental health,” Finn said.

Some of the writers complained that the “educrats” are so obsessed with teaching tolerance of different ethnic groups that they’re not telling students about the dangers of other cultures – including those that sponsor Islamic religious fanaticism and treat women like slaves.

“We now have the opportunity to show that there are people and cultures with ideas radically and fundamentally different from our own,” said John Agresto, a professor at Wabash College in Indiana.

Author Richard Rodriguez said students have to be told not to take hard-won freedoms for granted.

“All can be undone,” he said. “Because America is a young nation, we easily assume our civilization as a given. Older nations, by contrast, have seen their great cities toppled, the beliefs and assumptions of generations overturned overnight.”